PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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How golden age Arab-Islamic scholars revolutionized sleep physiology and dream analysis. [PDF]
J Taibah Univ Med SciBaHammam AS.
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Geneticization outside genetics' birthplace: ethical, legal and social implications in the Gulf Cooperation Council region. [PDF]
Front GenetShaheen S, Ghaly M.
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The Plagiarist in the Machine? Generative AI and the Will to Fail
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.ABSTRACT This paper argues that the real challenge posed by Large Language Models (LLMs) in Higher Education lies not in their potential for plagiarism, but in their creation of a new form of writing that is indistinguishable in the traditional essay.
Matthew J. Barnard, Keith Crome
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Promoting awareness of childhood vaccines in the Uyghur Türk community in Türkiye: a health education intervention. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthOrhun NM +7 more
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 595-606, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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Integrating health humanities in medical education: a narrative scoping review of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and global perspectives. [PDF]
Philos Ethics Humanit MedMohseni S, Moradi S, Amuei F.
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1760-1777, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines trust in women's organizations as a gendered and contextually embedded dimension of institutional trust, drawing on data from 90,192 respondents across 60 countries using the 2017–2022 World Values Survey, the World Bank, and Varieties of Democracy.
Ruby Amanda Oboro‐Offerie
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Human dignity, minimum and maximum: what is the justification for the difference between male and female Diyah" in Islam? [PDF]
J Med Ethics Hist MedJafari SA +5 more
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